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‘Car And Driver’ Says Farewell To Its 40k-Mile Ford Mustang GT

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The staff at Car and Driver just got through with their long-term, 40,000-mile road test of the sixth-generation Ford Mustang GT – a 2016 Premium fastback with black paint and the available 6-speed manual transmission. Over the course of 17 months, the crew got well-acquainted with the car’s strengths, weaknesses, and indifferent quirks.

The outlet also met several other issues with annoyance – namely, “a brake pedal that grew increasingly grabby on initial application,” and a tendency for the transmission/driveline to clunk audibly in the lower gears. Both of these vagaries prompted Car and Driver to bring the Mustang GT long-termer in to the dealer, who found no cause for concern.

Of course, the publication found plenty endearing about the blue-collar, 435-horsepower pony car, as well. The staff happened to get their hands on a 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS concurrently with their Mustang GT loan, with C/D staffers’ preference being more-or-less tied to “which brand you’ve sold your soul to,” as Senior Editor Jared Gall put it. At the end of the day, both are strong, compelling enthusiast products.